In perfect conditions in Lienz, with hard packed snow that the race organisers had worked through the night to prepare, Viktoria Rebensburg leads from Mikaela Shiffrin with Slovenian Tina Robnik in a surprised third, this was a tightly packed first run: the first seven are separated by less than three-tenths of a second. Alex Tilley produced a performance that she knew she was capable of after starting a tad slowly on the top section.